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((Short description|British charity worker))
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[[File:ofoot.jpg|thumb|Oliver Isaac Foot]]

'''Oliver Isaac Foot''' (19 September 1946 – 6 February 2008) was a British actor, philanthropist and charity worker.

==Early life==
Oliver Foot was born on 19 September 1946, the son of [[Hugh Foot]], (later [[Baron Caradon]], [[Jamaica]]'s last British Colonial Secretary), and Florence Sylvia Tod. He was the younger brother of journalists [[Paul Foot (journalist)|Paul Foot]] and [[Sarah Foot (journalist)|Sarah Foot]], and nephew of the former [[Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|leader]] of the British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], [[Michael Foot]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government minister Sir [[Dingle Foot]] and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[Peerage of England|peer]] Lord [[John Foot, Baron Foot|John Foot]]. Oliver was a lifelong [[Socialism|socialist]].<ref name=":1" />

After leaving [[Leighton Park School]], he read English at [[Goddard College|Goddard College, Vermont]] before returning to England to attend a drama studio in [[Ealing]], west [[London]].<ref name=":0" />

==Career==
===Footsbarn Theatre===

In 1971, Foot, with his wife Nancy and a group of other friends, set up the [[Footsbarn Theatre|Footsbarn Theatre Company]] using a barn near [[Liskeard]], [[Cornwall]], for rehearsals – hence the name, "Footsbarn".<ref>[http://footsbarn.com/oliver_foot.php Oliver Foot] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711015510/http://footsbarn.com/oliver_foot.php |date=11 July 2011 )), [http://footsbarn.com/ Footsbarn Theatre Company].</ref>

===Christian faith===
In the mid-1970s, Foot became a born-again Christian while staying with the [[L'Abri]] Fellowship in Hampshire. He was a member of Grace Community Church in [[Morval, Cornwall|Morval]], near Looe in [[Cornwall]].((cn|date=March 2024))

===Orbis===

Foot was a long-standing supporter of [[ORBIS International]], the flying eye hospital, and was the chief executive from 1982 to 1987, becoming president from 1987 to 1995 and again from 2004 to his death in 2008.<ref name=":0">((Cite web|last=Holland|first=Geoffrey|date=2008-02-12|title=Obituary: Oliver Foot|url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/feb/12/medicalresearch.voluntarysector|access-date=2021-06-22|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en))</ref>

===Air Jamaica and Sandals===
After his departure from Orbis, Foot worked for [[Air Jamaica]] and [[Sandals Resorts]] as a Vice-President of Public Affairs from 1996 to 2004.  Splitting his time between Jamaica and the UK, Foot used his contacts in the press to significantly raise the profile of Air Jamaica, Sandals and Jamaica at large to the people of the UK.<ref name=":0" />

===Jamaica Blue===
During 1998, in partnership with the Jamaican Government, Foot started a chain of coffee shops called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Shops Limited (Jamaica Blue). The first location opened in Mayfair, London, in mid-January 1999. Jamaica Blue sold and used [[Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee]] and served locally supplied Jamaican foods, cakes and crafts; [[Air Jamaica]] transported all the coffee at a discount price and flew out shipments of Jamaica's own St Catherine's peak spring water.((Citation needed|date=October 2008))

Most of the staff were of Jamaican descent or had a Jamaican connection. Foot set up the shop, not to make money, but to help the small coffee farmers in Jamaica, who were suffering due to a surplus of Blue Mountain coffee created by financial instability in Japan, the main purchaser of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.<ref>((cite news|first=Steve |last=Busfield|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/1999/jan/02/14?commentpage=1 |title=Jamaican Blue Mountain comes to heart of London]|newspaper=The Guardian|date= 2 January 1999))</ref> In the end, the location was poorly chosen and the overheads were too high. Jamaica Blue closed in 2001.

==Death==
Foot was an alcoholic and frequent user of cannabis and cocaine. He died, aged 61, in hospital in South London due to heart failure after smoking crack cocaine. He was survived by his children, his sister Sarah, brother Benjamin, and uncle, Michael Foot.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">((Cite web|date=2011-10-23|title=Oliver Foot: President of Orbis International, the world's only flying|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/oliver-foot-president-of-orbis-international-the-world-s-only-flying-eye-hospital-780243.html|access-date=2021-06-22|website=The Independent|language=en))</ref><ref>((cite web |title=Nephew of Michael Foot died after smoking crack cocaine |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nephew-of-michael-foot-died-after-332486 |website=mirror.co.uk |date=28 August 2008 |access-date=15 February 2022))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/feb/12/medicalresearch.voluntarysector ''Guardian'' obituary]
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/09/db0902.xml ''Daily Telegraph'' obituary]((dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic))((cbignore|bot=medic))
* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/oliver-foot-president-of-orbis-international-the-worlds-only-flying-eye-hospital-780243.html ''Independent'' obituary]

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